New York, Grolier Club, , MS 17. Text(s): Book of hours, use of Rome. Description: ff. iii + 84 + iii - Bound, s. XVIII (?), in dark green morocco with gilt tooled floral design on both covers; spine and turn-ins gilt; rose watered silk doublures and endleaves; edges gilt. - Comte de Rochechouart arms on ff. 1, 84; Castel-Lodève arms on f. 2. Frederick Perkins of Chipstead, Kent to Bennett; Simon J. Schwartz of New Orleans to G. D. Smith; Smith sale to G. Wells; Waters S. Davis by whose children it was given to the Grolier. - De Ricci, p. 1668 (when it was in the collection of Waters S. Davis, 1150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY; d. 12 February 1940, according to an obituary notice in the journal, Speculum). Part 1: ff. 1-85v. Description: - Parchment - 191 x 130 mm - Gatherings mainly of 8 leaves; 20 long lines ruled in red.

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